Henry Knox Quotes

First, I think it proper to express my unshaken opinion of the immortality of my soul or mind; and to dedicate and devote the same to the supreme head of the Universe - to that great and tremendous Jehovah, - Who created the universal frame of nature, worlds, and systems in number infinite . . . To this awfully sublime Being do I resign my spirit with unlimited confidence of His mercy and protection . . .

Henry Knox

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• I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Enough
  • Author
  • Role

• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Support
  • Become
  • Immigrants

• I keep in touch with what's real.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Real
  • Keep
  • Touch

• When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn't I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Know
  • Wish
  • Restaurant

• I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • True
  • Funny
  • Sexy

• In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • You
  • Film
  • Audience

• I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Food
  • Feet
  • Stand

• I grew up loving musicals. My mom had records of original cast recordings, and one of them was 'She Loves Me.' I wore that thing out singing along to Barbara Cook when I was eight years old.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Up
  • She
  • Me

• You can't escape from what you are.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • You
  • Escape

• It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • Want
  • Trust
  • Ridiculous

• I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Think
  • Administration
  • U.S.

• A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • U.S.
  • Along
  • Batteries

• Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Real
  • True
  • Action

• I'm never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Change
  • Days

• Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • People
  • Believe
  • Enemy

• I don't think you can beat your audience over the head with hard-hitting cartoons day after day after day.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Think
  • Day
  • Audience

• I think one of the reasons that I got so good at it, as somebody making radio stories, is that on the radio I can actually - I can understand what's happening in the interview and can make a connection in a way that makes sense.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Good
  • Think
  • Understand

• 'The Master' with Joaquin Phoenix puts up a good fight, but my favorite movie of all time is 'The Wizard of Oz.' I just love it. I watched it over and over again as a child, and I think it has all the elements of wonder, and it's a beautiful story.

  

  Jonny Weston
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• You will do the greatest service to the state if you shall raise, not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses rather than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses.

  

  Epictetus
  • Service
  • Slaves
  • Houses

• Donald Trump says he knows more about ISIS than the generals. No, he doesn't.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Donald Trump
  • ISIS

• As my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • World
  • Well
  • Editor

• When the show is over we still have to pay our rent, we have to buy food. We have to do all the same things that you do.

  

  Jamie Farr
  • Food

• First, I think it proper to express my unshaken opinion of the immortality of my soul or mind; and to dedicate and devote the same to the supreme head of the Universe - to that great and tremendous Jehovah, - Who created the universal frame of nature, worlds, and systems in number infinite . . . To this awfully sublime Being do I resign my spirit with unlimited confidence of His mercy and protection . . .

  

  Henry Knox
  • World
  • Mind
  • Soul